The rookie
2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38
Moreno's first licensed card of any kind, from Panini's 'Debut Edition' Prizm UFC released 28 April 2021 — six weeks before he beat Deiveson Figueiredo to become the first Mexican-born UFC champion. Because Topps never issued him a card in five years of holding the licence, this is the whole of his pre-championship cardboard. It sits in the vertical half of the 200-card base set (100 vertical, 100 horizontal).
Sellers routinely list Prizm #38 Silver and coloured parallels as 'the rookie' — they are parallels of #38, not separate rookie cards. Because all three 2021 base cards exist, a listing that says only 'Brandon Moreno rookie' without naming the product is ambiguous between Prizm #38, Select Concourse #96 and Chronicles #26. Select prints him at three tiers in one product — Concourse #96, Premier Level #160 and Octagonside #296 — so a Moreno card numbered in the 100s or 200s from that set is a different card, not a parallel.
- Earliest licensed card2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 High confidence
- First MMA card2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 High confidence
- First UFC card2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 High confidence
- First certified autograph2021 Panini Select UFC Rookie Signatures #7 High confidence
- Recognized rookie card2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 Verified
The evidence behind each
- 2021Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's checklist reads '38 Brandon Moreno - Flyweight' in the 200-card base set and dates the product 28 April 2021. He appears in no checklist in 2017 Topps UFC Knockout, and both MMA Rookies and Collectibles.com begin his card history in 2021.
- 2021First MMA card — Same card — the earliest Moreno card identified, in a UFC-licensed Panini product.
- 2021First UFC card — Cardboard Connection checklist and release date; nothing earlier exists on any list consulted despite his 2016 Octagon debut.
- 2021First certified autograph — Cardboard Connection lists '7 Brandon Moreno - Flyweight #/149' in the 10-card Rookie Signatures checklist. Moreno appears in none of the autograph checklists in 2021 Panini Prizm UFC (28 April 2021), so Select is his first signed card.
- 2021Recognized rookie card — MMA Rookies names it his True Rookie Card; Collectibles.com's register lists '2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 RC'; SportsCardsPro's card page flags it a rookie card; Cardboard Connection's release dates make it the first of his three 2021 base cards.
Key Moreno cards
10 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Moreno is the rare modern champion with no Topps cardboard at all from his early career. He debuted in the UFC on 1 October 2016, was cut in 2018, fought his way back, and Topps let the UFC licence lapse after 2020 without ever putting him in a set — nine UFC bouts inside the Topps era and not one card. Collectibles.com's biography states it plainly: he 'debuted as a Rookie in 2021', and MMA Rookies lists nothing before that year. So there is no pre-Panini Moreno card to find, and anyone assuming a 2016-debut fighter must have Topps paper somewhere is looking for something that does not exist.
His entire rookie class is compressed into one Panini year, so the only question is which 2021 release came first — and that is settled by the calendar. 2021 Panini Prizm UFC, the Debut Edition, arrived on 28 April 2021 with him at #38 in the vertical half of the 200-card base set, six weeks before he submitted Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 263 to become the first Mexican-born UFC champion. MMA Rookies names it his true rookie card and SportsCardsPro flags it as one, with the full Prizm ladder behind it from Silver and Green through Red /275, Mojo /25, Gold /10, Octagon /8 and a Black 1/1. Select #96 (30 July) and the Chronicles Rated Rookie #26 (6 October) are the secondary rookies; the coloured parallels of #38 are frequently advertised as separate rookie cards, which they are not.
Prizm carried no Moreno signature in any of its four autograph sets, so his first certified autograph is Select UFC's Rookie Signatures #7, numbered to 149 and issued on 30 July 2021 — his first signed card, and his first as reigning champion, from a ten-card checklist. Select's three-tier base structure also gives him Concourse #96, Premier Level #160 and Octagonside #296, a three-card ladder of the same fighter at escalating scarcity. That structure is the one thing in his catalogue that reliably trips people up: a Moreno Select card numbered in the 100s or 200s is a different card, not a parallel of #96. An Octagon Action Signatures card of him, also numbered to 149, sits in the same product.
Chronicles UFC on 6 October 2021 spread him across Panini's whole brand line-up in one product: the Donruss Rated Rookie #26, the design most non-MMA collectors recognise on sight, Contenders and Optic Contenders Rookie Season Tickets, a Chronicles Signatures #32, an Origins autograph, and the Optic Rated Rookies Signatures #RR-BMR — a signed Rated Rookie on chromium stock from a nine-fighter checklist that runs 27 cards in total, base plus Red and Gold /10, with the Gold the realistic top-end chase. Cardboard Connection's table shows a '1' against his Optic line where two other catalogues give RR-BMR, which reads as a row position rather than a printed number.
The inaugural Immaculate Collection UFC closed the year on 31 December 2021 treating him as a headline rookie: base #10 /65, Immaculate Ink #5 /99, a jumbo glove relic /27, the signed Rookie Memorabilia Autographs #102 /99 — his first card combining a signature with a swatch, with Red /25, Gold /10, Acetate /8 and Platinum 1/1 above it — and the Dual Autographs #10, Moreno and Figueiredo signing one card at 25 copies, the rivalry card for a series they fought four times between December 2020 and January 2023. Panini Instant also produced two print-to-order cards of him that year, #20 and #21, whose populations were fixed by their sales windows. Topps finally reached him eight years after his UFC debut: 2024 Topps Chrome UFC #30, released 20 March 2024, with the refractor ladder from Speckle /299 down to a SuperFractor 1/1, plus Marks of Champions, Tale of the Tape and Generation Now inserts. Everything else collectors chase for him is still a 2021 Panini card.
Autographs
5 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
Moreno fought nine UFC bouts in this window and appeared in none of Topps' UFC products, which ran through 2020. Collectibles.com's biography states plainly that he 'debuted as a Rookie in 2021', and MMA Rookies lists nothing before 2021 — so there is no pre-Panini Moreno card to find.
2021 Panini Prizm UFC, released 28 April 2021, gave him card #38 in the 200-card base set. It is his first licensed card of any kind and the card MMA Rookies designates his 'true rookie'.
He submitted Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 263 on 12 June 2021 to take the flyweight title. Panini Instant UFC carries two 2021 Moreno print-to-order cards, #20 and #21, from his championship year.
2021 Panini Select UFC (30 July 2021) put him in all three base tiers — Concourse #96, Premier Level #160, Octagonside #296 — and produced Rookie Signatures #7 numbered /149, the earliest Moreno signature in a licensed product. Select also carries an Octagon Action Signatures #10 /149 of him (Cardboard Connection, single source).
Chronicles UFC (6 October 2021) spread him across Panini's brands: Donruss Rated Rookie #26, Contenders and Optic Contenders Rookie Season Ticket, Chronicles Signatures #32, Origins Autographs #39, and the Optic Rated Rookies Signatures #RR-BMR with Red and Gold /10 parallels.
The inaugural Immaculate Collection UFC (31 December 2021) treated him as a headline rookie: base #10 /65, Rookie Memorabilia Autographs #102 /99, Immaculate Ink #5 /99, Jumbo Memorabilia Gloves #53 /27 and a Moreno/Figueiredo Dual Autograph #10 /25.
Topps regained the licence and put him in 2024 Topps Chrome UFC at #30, with Marks of Champions #MOC-BMO, Tale of the Tape #TFT-1 and Generation Now #GNW-15. Collectibles.com shows him continuing into 2026 Topps Midnight and Stadium Club UFC.
Rookie parallels
Sets
Where Moreno's key cards come from.
- 20212021 Panini Prizm UFC1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Select UFC1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Select UFC Rookie Signatures1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Chronicles UFC1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Chronicles UFC Optic Rated Rookies Signatures1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Chronicles UFC Chronicles Signatures1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Instant UFC1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Rookie Memorabilia Autographs1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Dual Autographs1 key card
- 20242024 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 in a numbered colour — Gold /10, Octagon /8 or the Black 1/1
- 022021 Panini Select UFC Rookie Signatures #7 /149, his first certified autograph
- 032021 Panini Chronicles UFC Optic Rated Rookies Signatures #RR-BMR, especially the Gold /10
- 042021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Dual Autographs #10 Moreno/Figueiredo /25
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Brandon Moreno's rookie card: 2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 — Brandon Moreno.
Moreno has no card before 2021, so the rookie question is only about which 2021 Panini issue came first. 2021 Panini Prizm UFC released 28 April 2021 (Cardboard Connection), ahead of Select (30 July), Chronicles (6 October) and Immaculate (31 December). Cardboard Connection's base checklist has him at #38, SportsCardsPro's card page confirms #38 and flags it a rookie card, and MMA Rookies names '2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38' his true rookie card while listing Select #96 and Chronicles #26 as the secondary RCs.
Moreno is the rare modern champion with no Topps cardboard at all from his early career. He debuted in the UFC on 1 October 2016, was cut in 2018, fought his way back, and Topps let the UFC licence lapse after 2020 without ever putting him in a set — nine UFC bouts inside the Topps era and not one card. Collectibles.com's biography states it plainly: he 'debuted as a Rookie in 2021', and MMA Rookies lists nothing before that year. So there is no pre-Panini Moreno card to find, and anyone assuming a 2016-debut fighter must have Topps paper somewhere is looking for something that does not exist.
- Collectibles.comBrandon Moreno Cards, accessed September 22, 2026
- MMA RookiesMoreno, Brandon — rookie cards, accessed September 22, 2026
His entire rookie class is compressed into one Panini year, so the only question is which 2021 release came first — and that is settled by the calendar. 2021 Panini Prizm UFC, the Debut Edition, arrived on 28 April 2021 with him at #38 in the vertical half of the 200-card base set, six weeks before he submitted Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 263 to become the first Mexican-born UFC champion. MMA Rookies names it his true rookie card and SportsCardsPro flags it as one, with the full Prizm ladder behind it from Silver and Green through Red /275, Mojo /25, Gold /10, Octagon /8 and a Black 1/1. Select #96 (30 July) and the Chronicles Rated Rookie #26 (6 October) are the secondary rookies; the coloured parallels of #38 are frequently advertised as separate rookie cards, which they are not.
Prizm carried no Moreno signature in any of its four autograph sets, so his first certified autograph is Select UFC's Rookie Signatures #7, numbered to 149 and issued on 30 July 2021 — his first signed card, and his first as reigning champion, from a ten-card checklist. Select's three-tier base structure also gives him Concourse #96, Premier Level #160 and Octagonside #296, a three-card ladder of the same fighter at escalating scarcity. That structure is the one thing in his catalogue that reliably trips people up: a Moreno Select card numbered in the 100s or 200s is a different card, not a parallel of #96. An Octagon Action Signatures card of him, also numbered to 149, sits in the same product.
Chronicles UFC on 6 October 2021 spread him across Panini's whole brand line-up in one product: the Donruss Rated Rookie #26, the design most non-MMA collectors recognise on sight, Contenders and Optic Contenders Rookie Season Tickets, a Chronicles Signatures #32, an Origins autograph, and the Optic Rated Rookies Signatures #RR-BMR — a signed Rated Rookie on chromium stock from a nine-fighter checklist that runs 27 cards in total, base plus Red and Gold /10, with the Gold the realistic top-end chase. Cardboard Connection's table shows a '1' against his Optic line where two other catalogues give RR-BMR, which reads as a row position rather than a printed number.
- Cardboard Connection2021 Panini Chronicles UFC Checklist, Set Details, Boxes, Reviews, accessed September 21, 2026
- 2021 Panini Chronicles UFC Optic Rated Rookies Signatures, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProBrandon Moreno #26 — 2021 Panini Chronicles UFC (Donruss Rated Rookies), accessed September 22, 2026
The inaugural Immaculate Collection UFC closed the year on 31 December 2021 treating him as a headline rookie: base #10 /65, Immaculate Ink #5 /99, a jumbo glove relic /27, the signed Rookie Memorabilia Autographs #102 /99 — his first card combining a signature with a swatch, with Red /25, Gold /10, Acetate /8 and Platinum 1/1 above it — and the Dual Autographs #10, Moreno and Figueiredo signing one card at 25 copies, the rivalry card for a series they fought four times between December 2020 and January 2023. Panini Instant also produced two print-to-order cards of him that year, #20 and #21, whose populations were fixed by their sales windows. Topps finally reached him eight years after his UFC debut: 2024 Topps Chrome UFC #30, released 20 March 2024, with the refractor ladder from Speckle /299 down to a SuperFractor 1/1, plus Marks of Champions, Tale of the Tape and Generation Now inserts. Everything else collectors chase for him is still a 2021 Panini card.
2021 Panini Prizm UFC #38 — Brandon Moreno.
2021 Panini Select UFC #96 — Brandon Moreno.
2021 Panini Select UFC Rookie Signatures #7 — Brandon Moreno.
- Cardboard Connection2021 Panini Select UFC checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
2021 Panini Chronicles UFC #26 — Brandon Moreno.
2021 Panini Chronicles UFC Optic Rated Rookies Signatures #RR-BMR — Brandon Moreno.
2021 Panini Chronicles UFC Chronicles Signatures #32 — Brandon Moreno.
2021 Panini Instant UFC #20 — Brandon Moreno.
2021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Rookie Memorabilia Autographs #102 — Brandon Moreno.
2021 Panini Immaculate Collection UFC Dual Autographs #10 — Brandon Moreno / Deiveson Figueiredo.
2024 Topps Chrome UFC #30 — Brandon Moreno.